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Unsolicited messages (spam), especially advertising, as well as sending messages repeatedly on the same site, disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email.

I have one page on my site that seems to be getting a high number of trackbacks. I have trackbacks disabled in Settings and I also have comments disabled. Any thoughts or suggestions on how I can stop ...

Since a week or so, we've launched this new WordPress website for a customer of ours. Everything works like it should except from the part that our customer keeps getting these strange and empty email ...

We look after a bunch of WordPress sites none of which run themes which involve public participation. So basically the setting Membership - anyone can register is always turned off.
I have just taken ...

Is there any advantage to performance (or otherwise) for emptying comment spam from within wp-admin on any regular basis?
I daily have been making sure that the comment spam queue is emptied out, but ...

I have a Bengali Q/A site which is created in WordPress. Recently I am getting unexpected post to my site from different users in english which are not any question or answer, just some junk content. ...

Akismet went crazy and sent several hundred comments to spam. Right now, I have to manually mark each comment as "Not Spam" and then manually move all of them from Pending to Approved. Any way to do ...

My hosting company recently turned on the error reporting for slow queries in php/apache and we have seen the error logs get flooded with errors all from queries requesting spam comments on the front ...

A couple of my sites are getting slammed by a hyperagressive distributed spambot. It's just pure link spam. It all comes from one user name, but from a variety of IPs.
Akismet is catching the spam, ...

I have several inputboxes and no textareas in my custom content type. Can I use Akismet that comes with WP for that? If I can, how to do that?
E.g. If I have 5 inputboxes like: name, address, city, ...

Today I've got a letter from my hosting provider that admin-ajax.php script had been sending spam until it was blocked. About two thousand spam messages were sent to different emails.
I know if you ...

I have recently had a website migrated by my host over to a new server within the same network.
I have now noticed that within the WordPress dashboard, if I try and do any of the following...
Empty ...

In wp-login.php?action=register, I've disabled text fields (sorry this web site is in Japanese only but hope you can see that there's no text field) and enabled registration only via social login by ...

i have tried to make classified as a spam.
i am using another wordpress classified ads plugin(AWPCP),i have put front-end side button in browse ads page to move ads spam.
so,suggest me any plugin or ...

I have a wordpress.org blog that I host on my own site. I have the Akismet plugin installed, and in general I keep both up-to-date (e.g. at the moment, Akismet is at version 2.5.7, and Wordpress at ...

I made some changes in comment-template.php, wp-comment-post.php so now I am storing the comments withot attaching with any post or page (I am setting the comment_post_id to 0).
But now the problem ...

We have tried the range of Captcha options, and now have Facebook Connect with Akismet installed as a constant, but still can't stop thousands of spam registrations from attacking our WordPress site. ...

Each day I manually delete the spam posted on my blog. The comments view allows a maximum of 20 comments in the view. When I have 200 spam entries - I need to click through 10 times to get rid of it ...

When I've built a few sites for small businesses in the past, I've historically been able to do without anti-spam measures. I now have several sites which get maybe between 5 and 20 spam comments a ...

I have the following rules set in my .htaccess file to block spam. It works by not allowing anyone to login, register, or make a comment unless the conditions are met. It works, but I would like to ...

I'm getting a lot of spam on my Wordpress blog. I'd like to cut down on the amount of comments I have to moderate. I'm looking for a plugin that does something like this: automatically marks comments ...

I'm having a heck of a time having trackbacks being disabled period on my self-hosted blog. I've disabled the "Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)" option, and have ...

So I own an article directory website and recently a lot of bots have signed up and started posting spam. (I approve posts prior to publication)
I've added a captcha to the user registration page now ...